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UNITED STATES PATENT EEICE.

JACOB \V. i." RICKLE AND CHARLES J. MASTIN, OF HUNTSVILLE, ALABAMA; SAIDMASTIN ASSIGNOR TO SAID STRICKLE.

CAP FOR STOVES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 442,648, dated December16, 1890. 7 Application filed October 24, 1889- Serial No. 328,093- (Nomodel.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, JACOB W. STRIOKLE and CHARLES J. MASTIN, bothcitizens of the United States, and both residing at Huntsville, in thecounty of Madison and State of Alabama, have jointly invented certainnew and useful Improvements in Caps for Stoves, of which the followingis a specification.

Our invention relates to a cap for cookingstoves, ranges, and the like;and it consists in novel features of construction hereinafter describedand claimed.

In order that our invention may be fully understood, we will proceed todescribe it with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which FigureI is a perspective view of our improved cap as applied to acooking-stove. Figs. II, III, IV, and V are side elevations of modifiedforms of caps.

Our cap is formed of copper, zinc, tin, or sheet-iron, and itis designedto rest on and to be secured to the top of a cooking-stove, as shown inFig. I.

Our cap is constructed with a stationaryor fixed part 1, which issecured by means of thumb-screws or set-screws 2 to'the flanges of thestove-top.

3 is a cover or hood secured to the front edge of the fixed part bymeans of separable hinges 4. The fixed part is provided with extensions5, one on each side of the smoke-pipe, separated from the cap chamber bya vertical partition 6 and provided with doors 7 and shelves 8.

The cap-chamber is connected with the smoke-pipe by means of a shortcurved pipe 9, entering the smoke-pipe through an opening 10,having acurved sleeve 11,conforming to the curved pipe and extending into thesmoke-pipe as a guide for the insertion of the curved pipe of the capwhen the latter is applied to the stove.

The cover or hood is provided with a front door 12, secured to the frontedge of the same by means of separable hinges 13 and having a handle ll.The cover or hood is also provided with slides or doors 15 in the top,which are located over the pot-holes of the stove.

16 are handles by which the cover or hood is raised and lowered. As acounter-balance for the cover or hood we provide a Weight 17, connectedby means of cords 18 with the cover or hood, the cords being passed overpulleys or sheaves 19, secured to brackets or hangers 20.

21 is a stop for the cover or hood when lowered into normal position.

22 is a slide to close the opening 10.

In the modifications shown in Figs. II, III, and IV we dispense with theextensions, so that the partition 6 forms the inner end of the cap.

In the modifications shown in Figs. III, IV, and V we show slightchanges in'the construction of the covers or hoods and the doorsthereto.

The hinges being separable, the door or cover or hood can be removed bylifting up and sliding to one side.

The upper part of the cover or hood may be separated from the lower partso as to slide vertically within the latter, the parts being securedtogether at their outer ends by a suitable fastening 23, as shown inFig. IV. This construction enables the cover or hood to be adjusted inheight to accommodate vessels of different heights.

\Vire may be substituted for the cords which connect the counterbalancewith the cover or hood.

Having thus described our invention, the following is what we claim asnew therein and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

1. A cap for cooking-stoves, consisting of a fixed part 1, having acurved pipe 9, a cover or hood 3, hinged to the fixed part, and a hingeddoor 12, substantially as described.

2. A cap for cookin -stoves, consisting of a fixed part 1, having acurved pipe 9, and a cover or hood 3, hinged to the fixed part andhaving top doors 15, substantially as 'described.

3. A cap for cooking-stoves, consisting of a fixed part 1, having acurved pipe 9, a cover smoke-pipe formed with an opening 10 and 10 orhood 3, hinged to the fixed part and hax'ing curved sleeve 11, of thecap having a curved top doors 15, and a hinged door 12, substanpipe 9,substantially as described.

tiaily as described.

JACOB WV. STRICKLE. 5 4. A cap for (3O0k1I1 -StOYeS CODSISUH of 7 r1 afixed part 1, having a pipeiextension 5, CHARLES MASUN' having doors 7,and a cover or hood 3, hinged Vitnesses: to the fixed part,substantially as described. OSCAR I-I. RoLFE,

5. The combination, with a stove having a JAMES H. BONE.

